History & Persons

Vladimir Golstein01.12.2024

In the late XIX century, an American named George Kennan (distant relative of the famous George Kennan of the containment doctrine), traveled through Siberia. The dude loved Russia and used every opportunity (work for telegraph company and journalism) to travel through Russia’s most exotic parts. He collected some of his observations into a two volume […]

Alexander Palladin29.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 and Part 2. In Chemulpo Jack London found out that the war he was supposed to cover had begun a week before and that on its very first day after a brief battle with a Japanese squadron, Russian sailors instead of surrending sank their […]

Alexander Palladin27.11.2024

In March 1947, a delegation of deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR arrived in London in response to similar visit of English parliamentarians to our country a year before. The Soviet delegation included famous writers like Konstantin Simonov and Alexander Fadeyev, plus future chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Vasily Kuznetsov […]

Alexander Palladin26.11.2024

Nearly 69 million servicemen from 38 countries took part in the First World War, which began 110 years ago. Most of them were from Germany (13 million 250 thousand) and Russia – 12 million. The latter included two of my ancestors. One of them, Nikolai (born in 1890), was the eldest son of my great-grandfather […]

Egor Sennikov25.11.2024

In Manchukuo, the Japanese were creating a completely new state that was theoretically independent, meaning that there were no restrictions on the policies the new state could pursue. Many university graduates in Japan, despite being opposed to the social system that existed in Japan itself, went to work in Manchukuo, believing that they could carry […]

Alexander Palladin22.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 Jack London managed to get a ticket on a Japanese steamship to Korea only in Moji. Before boarding it, he decided to wander around the city and take pictures, but was arrested by local police who mistook him for a Russian spy. On February […]

Alexander Palladin20.11.2024

Usually, they say that ice hockey in our country was born on December 22, 1946, when the first USSR championship was launched. However, the first hockey match in Russia took place in 1898 when the “Nevsky Club of Cricket, Football, Hockey and Tennis”, formed by British workers in St. Petersburg, played against the “St. Petersburg […]

Alexander Palladin19.11.2024

120 years ago, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and by the end of February, 1904, some 50 foreign correspondents, mainly English and American, arrived in Japan. Among them was Jack London, one of the most popular foreign writers in Russia, where his novels and stories were printed in more than 77 million copies. At school […]

Alexander Palladin18.11.2024

When the Great Patriotic War began, my father was drafted into the Red Army, but was discharged due to a congenital heart defect and had to return to his civic journalistic duties in Moscow. In July 1941, he took my elder brother Valery to Skopin where our grandmother Lidya lived in the midst of the […]

Yuri Chekalin16.11.2024

This dog was picked up in July 1883 by sailors from the cruiser Africa in the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Returning from a long voyage from the Pacific Ocean, the sailors presented the Kamchatka Laika to Emperor Alexander III. They named the dog Kamchatka. The white and tan Laika Kamchatka became a faithful companion of the […]

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Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 3

Winston Churchill Through My Father’s Eyes

World War I Heroes In Memoriam: Part One

Build Where We Can, Not Where We Want

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 2

In The Beginning Was Marshal Voroshilov

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought

Skopin Is Where General Guderian’s Army Was Stopped

Royal Laika “Kamchatka”

Yeltsin’s Betrayal of the Residents of Crimea

The SCO Summit Was Far from Fruitless

160 Years Since the Opening of the First Congress of the First International

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